She would have been amazing as a president, but if you really want to trigger a red wave of insane Trump voters foaming at the mouth about “her emails!” bringing back Hillary would definitely be the way to do it.

BitWarden provides some encrypted storage on their paid tiers. I think it’s very small, like 1GB, but it’s E2E.

Apple iCloud storage is actually E2E too if you turn on Advanced Data Protection. (Note that not all iCloud features are E2E, like email, for example.) And the price is pretty comparable too. Naturally this works a lot better if you’re on a Mac, but just FYI.

I totally agree that both seem to imply intent, but IMHO hallucinating is something that seems to imply not only more agency than an LLM has, but also less culpability. Like, “Aw, it’s sick and hallucinating, otherwise it would tell us the truth.”

Whereas calling it a bullshit machine still implies more intentionality than an LLM is capable of, but at least skews the perception of that intention more in the direction of “It’s making stuff up” which seems closer to the mechanisms behind an LLM to me.

I also love that the researchers actually took the time to not only provide the technical definition of bullshit, but also sub-categorized it too, lol.

TBH, I support him more now than I did in the 2020 election, having seen him in office. He’s working the system to get some stuff done, even with the clown show congress he is presiding over. Is he perfect? No. But no elected official is ever going to be perfectly aligned with what everyone wants, unfortunately. Maybe we can get AOC to run in 2028?

But yes, the alternative of Trump basically dismantling the government and replacing it with some crazed shitshow is definitely a motivating factor too.

This is kinda genius, lol

I would absolutely send him an email to the effect of

“Per our multiple verbal conversations, this is just to serve as notice that, in my professional opinion, your refusal to allow me to upgrade a system at risk of multiple security vulnerabilities on a platform that is no longer supported is a risk that you are choosing to accept against my advise.”

with a list of known major vulnerabilities attached if possible.

That way at least if this comes back to bite the company on the ass, he can’t say “Well he never told me this was a problem!”

Wow, I totally see what you did there!

Spot the difference

As opposed to out in broad daylight, mid-interview and mid-speech, like Trump?

Let’s do it slightly differently, let’s make the mandatory retirement age for political office the median life expectancy age for the entire country. If the politicians, etc can manage to make everyone live longer, they can hold office longer.

Similarly, take away their separate and different medical coverage and put them on the same Medicare system everyone else in the country has to use.

LOL. So are you planning to vote Trump and basically let democracy fade away? Because I promise that is what will happen if he’s elected.

How in the actual fuck is this douche blaming Biden when the GOP have fought tooth and nail against ANY kind of positive change in this country under a DEM president??

The fact he’s managed the reforms and infrastructure and economic rebound that he has when the Supreme Court, every state GOP state attorney, and the GOP-led House have been walking anything he does accomplish back as fast as they can is practically a miracle, frankly. I mean, look at what he has accomplished despite the odds.

• Infrastructure Law ($1BILLION for roads, rail and clean water, earmarks for public transit)
• Inflation Reduction Act - reducing health insurance consumer costs, 10+ prescription dugs prices reduced
• Aid to Ukraine regardless of a broken congress
• Communication Act
• First ever Corporate Min tax
• CHIPS Act
• Hundreds of judge appointments
• Lead a campaign to cap insulin at $35
• More jobs created at this point in his presidency than any president in the last 40 years
• First President to join workers on a picket line
• Forgave $130+ billion in student loans
• Record stock market.
• Postal Service Reform Act
• Provided over $369M to reduce greenhouse emissions by 40%/7years
• Safer Communities Act (red flag laws against gun ownership I.e. domestic abusers)
• Executive order against police using excessive force , emphasis on body cameras
• Unemployment and inflation around 3% the best in the industrialized world
• Added 13.2+ million job, a record and replacing and exceeding what was lost in COVID
• Expanded NATO, adding countries who previously had no interest in joining, some along the Russian border have applied

* List copy-pasted from @[email protected], btw.

Blasting a bunch of bad guys in Rainbow 6: SMOL…

Yeah, but it’s practically pointless to bring it up IMHO, because if we’re comparing elephants, the “elephant” of Biden’s age (and I’m very much not convinced it’s not 90% media clickbait having seen his’s recent ProPublica interview) is much less terrifying than the entire freaking herd of elephants in the room whenever Trump enters.

Dementia, insurrection charges, sexual assault convictions, fraud trial, treasonous behavior, dictatorial aspirations—the dude is a walking nightmare for this country.

Biden maybe has mild issues with mental fog in the evenings and a vibrant and intelligent VP to back him up if the worst comes to pass. Trump, OTOH, is some kleptocracy shill who publicly talks about wanting to dismantle our democracy and never leave power again and hasn’t even named a VP candidate yet (but you can bet they’ll be an utterly spineless lickspittle after Pence shocked him by growing a pair right at the end). If he gets in office, we’re pretty much screwed, period.

EDIT: Mind you, obviously I’d much rather be voting for someone like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or AOC, but since Hilary got unfairly bumped for the presidency, we got the Orange Terror instead, who proceeded to destabilize the country as much as possible during his term and here we are…

So you’re saying Trump is any better? Because those are about 90% our choices right now.

BUT HIS AGE…

This headline is written in the form of “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” It is totally trying to assume the age problem is real and then move onto other slanderous topics.

Reading between the lines, WSJ and NYT both really don’t want him in office a second time. As for the actual presidential thing…

https://newrepublic.com/article/178435/biden-great-president-say-it-democrats

Why congress critters and immediate financial beneficiaries are allowed to buy anything but index funds and possibly ETFs is beyond me.

For values of public posts, yes.

My default for new posts is followers only and I have approve followers checked. (And I’m pretty picky, so far.)

More to the point, the discussion started out about the back end (whoever is in control of the servers selling all your data straight out of the database) and you’re referring to the front end (using a tool to scrape as much posted content as possible).

With respect to Blue Sky, which I was specifically addressing, it only has 3 million active users vs Mastodon’s 8 million right now though, which also somewhat obviates the whole network effect for new BS users. Not to mention since it is also decentralized, it does still suffer from the issue of instancing. About the only thing it may have going for it is an algorithm. I don’t honestly speak to that since I’ve only been there briefly, but since Twitter ran just fine without one and attracted tons of users (and got a lot of them angry when they switched to an algorithm), I suspect it isn’t a huge deciding factor for a lot of users.

I guess my point is… Blue Sky is still trying to launch and struggling. Mastodon is much more mature and only going to accelerate into the network effect more rapidly from here on out as well as standing a much better chance of not just being enshitified 5-7 years down the road, so when choosing between the two, I would definitely encourage any friends leaving Xitter to join Mastodon rather than Blue Sky.

Also, I feel like the users that care about algorithms and following Drake or whoever are just going to stick with Xitter anyway, because they really don’t care about all the “drama” of who owns it or what they are doing with their data.

Aha, I did indeed miss the “external storage” row—mostly because it only uses the “Tb” acronym quite late in the description. I think the difference between Firewire and USB-C is minimal? (ie they are both “fast enough”) but I guess having wifi is a step up (although I always still plug my phone in to transfer music at this point so…)